Making Strategies: Collage and Beyond | Leslie Baum | Saturday, Oct 18 | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Adult | Drawing | Any Painting Media | All Levels
Members: $195 | Non-Members: $205
Course ID: 2D2543
*This workshop must meet a minimum number of students by September 11, 2025.
Concept
In this playful approach to painting, drawing, and collage, experience the interconnectedness of all three practices. Discover how collage strategies can invigorate your whole making life.
Experience
In this one-day workshop, follow your own personal making arc. Create watercolors for the sole purpose of cutting them up! Encounter the freedom of transforming work from your hand into collage fodder and how your collages can in turn become the inspiration for new paintings. Uncover fresh potential in past works that went astray, chance strategies, found materials, and the visual richness of your surroundings. Let play, curiosity, and experimentation be your guides. Enjoy making en plein air and in the studio while finding inspiration from your peers and other artists. Embrace the delight and pleasure that accompanies this generative cycle of making and actively transforming what you make.
Skill Level
Open to students of all levels working in any drawing or painting media; beginners to advanced.
Adult | Drawing | Any Painting Media | All Levels
Members: $195 | Non-Members: $205
Course ID: 2D2543
*This workshop must meet a minimum number of students by September 11, 2025.
Concept
In this playful approach to painting, drawing, and collage, experience the interconnectedness of all three practices. Discover how collage strategies can invigorate your whole making life.
Experience
In this one-day workshop, follow your own personal making arc. Create watercolors for the sole purpose of cutting them up! Encounter the freedom of transforming work from your hand into collage fodder and how your collages can in turn become the inspiration for new paintings. Uncover fresh potential in past works that went astray, chance strategies, found materials, and the visual richness of your surroundings. Let play, curiosity, and experimentation be your guides. Enjoy making en plein air and in the studio while finding inspiration from your peers and other artists. Embrace the delight and pleasure that accompanies this generative cycle of making and actively transforming what you make.
Skill Level
Open to students of all levels working in any drawing or painting media; beginners to advanced.
Adult | Drawing | Any Painting Media | All Levels
Members: $195 | Non-Members: $205
Course ID: 2D2543
*This workshop must meet a minimum number of students by September 11, 2025.
Concept
In this playful approach to painting, drawing, and collage, experience the interconnectedness of all three practices. Discover how collage strategies can invigorate your whole making life.
Experience
In this one-day workshop, follow your own personal making arc. Create watercolors for the sole purpose of cutting them up! Encounter the freedom of transforming work from your hand into collage fodder and how your collages can in turn become the inspiration for new paintings. Uncover fresh potential in past works that went astray, chance strategies, found materials, and the visual richness of your surroundings. Let play, curiosity, and experimentation be your guides. Enjoy making en plein air and in the studio while finding inspiration from your peers and other artists. Embrace the delight and pleasure that accompanies this generative cycle of making and actively transforming what you make.
Skill Level
Open to students of all levels working in any drawing or painting media; beginners to advanced.
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INSTRUCTOR
Leslie Baum is a Chicago-based painter whose work is invitational in nature. Her painting practice is informed by her long tenure as museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Leslie received her BA from the University of Vermont and studied abroad at the Glasgow School of Art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Portland, Mexico City, Rome, and South Korea. Her drawings and paintings are in permanent collections of the Chicago Art institute and the Elmhurst Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed extensively, including in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, New City, and the Chicago Tribune. She has received residencies at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, the Nido project in Monte Castello di Vibio Italy, Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center. A 2020 DCASE grant funded the pleinairarchive.com - a site documenting her ongoing painting social practice. She was recently named one of Chicago’s Art 50 by New city magazine.
